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About La Grande observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1959-1968 | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1959)
p'nyy -ifS"a?ff--'W"y?w n, hi. wwwyry p f AIL 4 j ire .ni.'- A k .v-V tidj '-v'A I 2? vfOS V DISCUSS PLANS Discussing plans for the American Symphony Orchestra League and Arts Council National Convention in Phoenix are from left Warren Wirtz, presi dent of the Society of Arizona Composers, and Dr. L. Rhodes Lewis, of La Grande. Lewis is musical director and conductor of the Grande Ronde Symphony. Nearly 500 delegates from all parts of the United States attended the convention. Observer, La Grande, Ore., Wed., June 17, 1959 Page 3 pQOL AND HIS MONEY ALASKA'S FISH TRAP BAN THREATENS INDIAN PEACE ' METLAKATLA, Alaska UP1 llhat the state would take what- The makings of an Indian uprising wero tormenting in this southeast Alaska area today over the state ban on fish traps. The state, which has outlawed this method of harvesting the "silver horde" of salmon that teem in these waters, backod up its hand by moving two beats with six state police officers ahpard in to position near the villages of Kake and Angoon. Kake and Angoon, along with ever precautions were necessary to enforce the state prohibition. Apparently this includes armed force. Councilman Ted Benson of Met lakatla said the Indians had posted "no trespassing" signs on the res ervations and assigned watchmen armed with guns to enforce the rule. Benson even went so far as to say that if any blood were spilt over the "state - versus - federal ore th' nniu nlnpps i fis!U for control ofrthe fishery it in the new state which the In- "ouW bc the fault of Gov Bill terior Department has authorized continued operation of fish traps despite the state ban. These vil lages are on India:) reservations over which the federal government has jurisdiction. Egan, who refused to submit the case to a friendly court test." The police aboard the two ves sels have been instructed to pa trol areas where fish trap opera tions are proposed and to "make arrests should the state fisheries Gov. William Egan has vowed 'laws be violated. Being Asked Congress Is To Amend A. Very Old Law By FRANK ELEAZER UPI Staff Writer i WASHINGTON UPI) There is an old law to tho effect that a fool and his money are soon parted, and it will be a long time before that o:ic is repealed. How ever, Congress is being asked to amend it a little. i Edward N. Gadsby, chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, didn't exactly use ths word "fool" in his testimony for a Senate banking subcommit tee. He spoke of the "unsophisti cated investor" and the fellow "lured by spurious gcl-rich-quiek schemes." Nation Of Brazil Is Struggling To Keep Out Of The Poor House Gadsby said he and his helpers have discovered some loopholes in the laws Congress passed in-, ii.i and-1934 to orotect investors from a recetition of some of the things that hapuencd to them in li)2!l. Things like niavbc another biz break in the market? Sen. Harri son A. Williams Jr. (D-N.J.l won dered hopefully, running over the list ot proposed amendments to the existing securities laws. No Repeal Soen Unfortunately not. Gadsbv said. Market prices, which recently have hit record highs, come un der the law- of supply and de mand, it appears, and that's one law that can't be repealed. 'i think it's fair to say that the ingenuity of & large number of talented persons has been em ployed since l!i to design proper Warming Waters Are Increasing Danger Of Man-Eating Denizens SAN FRANCISCO (UPI I Ma rine scientists warned today that the warming waters off Califor nia's beaches carry an ever increasing menace of man-eating sharks. , Two men have been killed by the vicious fish in the last six weeks. Only two previous deaths by sharks had be;n recorded in 1952 and 1957. . But all authorities agreed that tho great white sharks which struck 4H0 miles apart can no longer be considered isolated stragglers in these coastal waters. One expressed fear that it might become necessary to pro tect swimmers with under-water shark nets, which have long been rigged off the shark-infested beaches of Australia. Coastal waters, which for gen erations were too cold for the kill er, fish, have grown six degrees warmer in the last two years, sci entists said. . "Just how this has taken place is what we're all trying to find out," said J. F. T. Sauer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ocoan ographcr at Stanford University. Some scientists believe it has been caused by a shift in Pacific wind patterns which have brought less upwelling of cold water from the ocean floor. - "We have no idea how long the water will continue to become warmer," said J. B. Phillips, a marine biologist for tho Fish and Game Department at Pacific Grove. "These great white sharks, even when only 10 and 11 feet long are very unpredictable and extremely vicious," Phillips said. "They will sttack a victim by sense, not by sight until maybe the last mo ment. , -.' .. Albert Kogler, a 19-year-old col lege student, was attacked, by a shark off Bake"S Beach in San Francisco Bay on May 7. His swimming companion, Shirley 0 Noill, also 19, Tuesday received a silver Carnegie medai for hero ically ignoring her own danger, swimming to Kogler and bringing him in to the beach. By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Staff Writer Brazil, potentially one of South America's richest nations, once more is struggling desperately to keep out of the poor house. It was oa Aug. 24, 1954, that President Getulio Vargas, for 25 years Brazil's "strong man", re tired to his room and fired a bul let into his heart after first writ ing a bitter last will and testa ment. In it he said: . "I en give nothing else but my blood. . .1 bequeath my death to the hatred of my enemies. I re gret that I was unable to do all I wanted for the humble. What Vargas had done for "the humble" was to bequeath them today s financial ills. Since World War 11, Brazil has passed through a succession of economic crises, each one more grave than the last. In the first 10 years after the war, she received some $600 mil lion in American loans. In the last 10 years, prices have risen 1,000 per cent. The Cruzeiro, Bra zil's unit of currency, has slipped to a value of only about three quarters of a U.S. cent. Coffee Economy Slip Despite her other riches, Bra zil's has been a coffee economy. And as coffee prices slipped so did Brazil s economy. The single act of the Vargas administration which is blamed for touching off Brazil's vicious inflationary spiral occurred on May 1, 1954. It- was a decree dou bling minimum wages. Prices, al ready high, shot skyward. At almost the same time, Bra zil set a minimum price on cof fee of 87 cents a pound. Vargas' attempt to extort from world cof- HELP STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S PEACE POWER v 1 he bright thread of life ; and hope winds down the generations and comes to rest . in the hands of a child. Will he grow up to carry the thread further? He will if there is peace. 1 , But peace costs money. Money for military and in dustrial strength. Money for science and education to help " make peace lasting. And mon ey saved by individuals by you to help keep our econ omy strong. You help pay the high cost '. of peace with every U. S. Sav ings Bond you buy. Are you ; t buying as many as you might? Peace Costs Money : - t UV U.S. SAVINGS BONDS Tht V. S. Covtrnment doet not pay for Ihit aduerluing. The Treasury Department thanki, lor their patriotic ionation.The Advertiring Council apdj LA GRANDE OBSERVER She'll Divorce Hubby Before Beauty Contest, ' LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPD-Joy Blaine, 22, a showgirl, will di vorce her husband in time to compete in the Miss Universe contest as Miss Nevada. Contest rules permit divorcees but not married women to com pete. Miss Blaine said she was in the process of divorcing ca sino dealer Harold Belsky on grounds of mental cruelty. The action will be completed before the contest starts in Long Beach, Calif., next month, she said. Feathers of yellow canaries will turn red if the birds arc fed paprika. fee drinkers the price of industri al expansion ;fl home boomcr anged. The coffee market broke and Vargas was dead, leaving behind his bitter legacy. Vargas, a strongman for 20 years, had become Brazil's legal ly elected president in 1950. From the start he courted the working classes, regardless of the effect on the country's economy. He found a willing audience. For in the cities, many lived in mis ery within sight of riches, and in Trees, Shrubs Clean The Air, Reduce Noise Did you ever think of a tree as a giant vacuum cleaner? Just as a vacuum cleaner swoops up household dust, outdoor air is cleaned as trees, shrubs and lawns breathe carbon dioxide and change it to oxygen. . V.. Ralph Clark, Oregon State College extension horticulturist, pointed out that as motor driven machines increase it is important to plant more greenery to reduce noise and counteract carbon diox ide given off by machines. Too much carbon dioxide in the air often causes headaches and eye irritations, he said. In cities and towns where the greatest build up of machinery exists,! we arc failing to plant trees and shrubs and maintain large lawn areas, he maintains. Before it is too late, Clark believ er we should do something about this problem. Estimates suggest planting a dozen trees to oilset carbon dioxide- from each car, and 100 trees for each bus or large truck. This is practically impossible in large cities, but downtown parks and sidewalk plantings of trees and shrubs help relieve the situation. To prove this to yourself, he sug gests stopping in at a nice park in any city and noting the fresh, cool air and restful conditions. Trees and lawns are import ant to farm home owners as well us city dwellers, he emphasized, for they decrease the effect of dust as well as taking up carbon dipxide and reducing noise. Plant ed along highways, trees make driving more pleasant for they nlso relieve monotony and les sen fatigue. V i n i i, v i a 41 . u it &tf- Iff ' i J x k " V ,!"" 1 VI . ?-wi h ':t j t f am.-: ' r.T. JIM One Beam family for six generations...One Kentucky Bourbon formula for 164 years! What makes Beam bourbon taste bo good? More than anything it is the fact that today, as for 164 years, it is still the Beams who make BEAM, under the same formula, in the same Kentucky country where bourbon was born. That is why you can always buy Beam bourbon with trust. ot. SMM jtBiousnra KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY & PROOF DISTILLED AND BOTTLED BY THE JAMES B. BEAM DISTILLING CO., CLERMONT, KY. . , the rural areas others lacked even the necessities. Makes Field For Reds They also provided n fertile field for communism. There was another set of cir cumstances which contributed to today's ills, created by leaders who found it politically profitable to promote a questionable sort of nntionnlism. It was this that let! to Petro bras, Brazil's stale-owned oil mo nopoly in which no foreigners are permitted to hold shares. Brazil is estimated to have enormous oil reserves, yet while petroleum im ports soar, her oil lies idle in the ground because Brazil has neither the know-how nor the money to get it out. ; Now President Juscelino Kubit- schek once more Is looking for money. It is probable that once more the U.S. will bail him out. Meanwhile, the basic ills re main uncurcd. .The government has shown no disposition to under take any such drastic "austerity" campaign as has aroused the ire of labor in Argentina and France. It probably could not and remain in office. ix Sport Fishermen Going Shark Hunting LOS ANUELK5 ILTII SIX sport fishermen disclosed today that they would go shark hunting this. week end in the area off La Jolla, Calif., where a shark killed a skin diver last Sunday. The group includes Howard W. Chappell, supervisor of the Fed eral Narcotics Bureau in Los An geles. He said he and his com panions would drag a sackful of dead fish in the waters where Rob ert L. Pamp?rin, 33, was killed uy me suum. ; Their weapons will be harpoon guns and rifles, Chappell said. Astronauts Have 85 Per Cent Chance Cf Return LOS ANGKLKS (ITU A space scientist said Tuesday that this country's astronauts have an IK per cent chance of returning safe ly to earth. "It is unrealistic to believe in a 1(H) per cent probability of suc cess, Dr. Kraft Khricke told newsmen at an Institute of Aero nautical Science summer meet ing. Ehricke, program director at Convair Astronautics, compared the spacemen's travel hazards to those of a test pilot, a race driver and the man who first flies the X15 rocket plane 100 miles above tho earth. He said that pre-orbital ballistic flights by Project Mercury astro nauts probably would be less dan gerous than orbital flights. statutes regarding the sale of se curities," Gadsby told Williams. ' We have been unable to picture any statute to do what you imply prevent a fall in the market price.'' What he doo3 want Congress to do, (iud.shy said, is amend the se curities laws to make it a little bit harder for us to be suckers. "The need for added investor protections and the strengthening of our 'enforcement hand," he said, "is particularly imperative today in view of the current ex tremely active securities mar ket." Wftat ho meant here, I deduced, is that with all the money being made in the market these days, just about everybody is getting in, and t licit inevitably a certain number of crooks are standing ready to tleccc anybody they can. Action Is Hampered Already there have been some complaints, and Gadsby said his helpers can't always take the steps that arc needed. For example, one registered in vestment adviser said cross his heart he hadn't done anything wrong. But when the SKC men asked for his books so they could see for themselves, he didn't have any. Kvcntually, his clients lost fMH'.OOO. Under one of the many amend ments sought by SKC, people like that would have to keep books, and also let SKC see them. Neither Williams nor Sen. Pres ent! Bush (R-Conn.l, Ihe other senator present, asked Gadsby for cdvice on the market. I guess they knew he wouldn't supply it. However, there's one additional old law I wish they had asked him about. This one says what ever goes up musl come down. If that's been repealed, I'd sure like to know it. POSITiVELY PREVENTS SUNBURN fOS YOUK MONCY ItCK) THE AU.YEAR. . AROUND PRODUCT 4 OZ. $1.!9 Plus Tax 1 hmmmmm I r- '.'I' ' ii J 3 TI . 'n i ll ran , in NEW FRIGiDAIRE FROST-PROOF 16 cu.ft. FOOD FREEZERS Big, New Upright EVIodcI Brings Ycu . . . FREEZING WITHOUT FROSTING! 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